Red Hollywood Page #11

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I can open anything

in four minutes.

He'll do.

You're in.

Not so fast.

What's the cut?

No cut.

You get a flat guarantee.

I want 30,000.

Thirty thousand?

Now, now, Louie...

Twenty-five

is what we figured.

All right, 15 down.

Ten down.

Fifteen is satisfactory,

I think.

There's your paymaster.

What are you sweating for?

Money, it makes me sweat.

That's all. It's the way I am.

It's going to take a lot

to blow this baby.

Here goes.

NARRATOR:
A crime thriller

might show how a safe

is cracked,

but not how it is filled.

That required a move

from the workplace

to the back rooms

where the financiers

and the takeover artists

did their work.

What corporation, Tucker?

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Come in.

I've got the tickets

for the winners, Mr. Morse.

And what does this corporation

expect from me, brother Joe?

In return for

the organization...

I have no secrets from Doris.

If you want to talk, talk.

If not, go.

In return for

the organization's service,

in return for taking you

into the combination,

the corporation gets

two-thirds of the profits

and you get one third.

But on the other hand...

Two thirds for Tucker,

brother Joe,

and one third for me,

for my own business?

Do you know

what this is, Joe? Blackmail!

That's what it is. Blackmail!

My own brother

blackmailing me!

You're crazy,

you're absolutely crazy, mad!

You're not listening to me!

I don't want it.

You know why

you don't want it?

I'll tell you why.

Because you're a small man.

Because if it is

a small thing,

you're a tiger.

You're a tiger!

But if it's a big thing,

you shout and yell

and call me names!

Oh, no, a million dollars

for Leo! Oh, no, must be

the wrong address.

It must be somebody

next door!

The answer is no.

You understand your no

won't stop the merging

of these banks.

Yours included.

Leo, Leo, this is your chance.

The one I got for you.

You take your chance, Joe,

and get out of here.

I'm an honest man here,

not a gangster

with that gangster Tucker!

Are you telling me,

a corporation lawyer,

that you're running

a legitimate business here?

What do you call this?

Payoffs for gambling,

an illegal lottery policy?

Violation 974,

the penal code, policy!

The numbers racket!

I do my business

honest and respectable.

Honest? Respectable?

Don't you take the nickels

and dimes and pennies

from people who bet

just like every other crook

big or little in this racket?

They call this racket policy

because people bet

their nickels on numbers

instead of paying their

weekly insurance premium.

That's why. Policy!

That's what it is

and that's what it's called.

And Tucker wants to make

millions and you want

to make thousands

and you, you do it

for $35 a week.

But it's all the same,

all policy!

He tries to make

his brother rich,

he kills him.

He tries to make

the young lady happy,

he makes her unhappy.

Whatever he tries to do

is wrong,

because it has to be wrong,

'cause the situation is such

that whatever you do is wrong.

All films about crime

are about capitalism.

'Cause capitalism

is about crime.

Uh, I mean, quote un-quote,

morally speaking.

At least that's what

I used to think.

Now I'm convinced.

(CHUCKLES)

NARRATOR:
The American

Communist movement

may have been

out of tune and out of touch

in the late '40s.

But no one in Hollywood

felt the need to work out

a serious critique.

The simplest accusations

were enough.

International Communism

demanded war.

War is part of the process

leading toward the general

upheaval throughout the world

that will result

in the establishment

of world Communism.

NARRATOR:
Domestic Communists

betrayed the workers to serve

their own obscure purposes.

Those are the orders

I received tonight to be

carried out without fail.

The waterfront is to be shut

down from May the 18th

for at least 60 days.

Therefore, no new contract

is to be signed between

the union and the owners.

But Collins and Travis

can close a deal

on their own right now.

I'll take care of Collins.

Travis is your assignment.

But the union's solid

behind them!

Of course it is.

If it wasn't,

I wouldn't need you.

Have your key cells

make demands that are bound

to be refused.

Start a whispering campaign.

Accuse the owners

of bad faith.

Accuse Jim Travis of being

a company stooge.

You know

the techniques.

Use 'em.

NARRATOR:
Communists adopted

the methods of the meanest

B-movie gangsters.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

I don't care what you were

told, Mr. Vanning...

Collins.

It's not true!

Someone made a mistake

when they told you.

The mistake was yours,

in being seen coming

out of the FBI office.

I told ya,

I don't even know

where the office is!

I may have just passed there

when I was in

the neighborhood.

Then how do you account

for Drobny's being picked up

the next day?

You were his

only contact.

Maybe they trailed him

from Los Angeles.

Yeah, maybe.

Maybe he got drunk and talked

too much. I don't know.

Yes...

I tell ya, I don't know

anything about...

Strange, isn't it?

How a man will try to turn

against his friends

and believe he can get

away with it?

Take him out.

Mr. Vanning, I tell you,

this is a mistake.

I've always been

absolutely loyal.

If you'd only give me

a chance to explain

this thing to ya.

This is all

a misunderstanding,

like I told him.

Let me talk to you.

Please, let me talk to you.

Don't, oh, God.

Don't. Please don't.

Okay.

Don't! Don't! No!

No! No! No!

(GASPING FOR AIR)

NARRATOR:
Behind all these

themes lay a fear

of independent women

for which the term misogyny

is woefully inadequate.

There was no question who held

the door to the Iron Curtain.

Listen, and try

to understand.

I hate everything about you,

from your

double-breasted suits

to your smooth,

arrogant faces.

You're nothing but a bunch

of p*ssy-footing,

well-paid gangsters!

Mrs. Welbome,

who is the leader

of your section?

I am!

There is only

one kind of truth.

That is the Communist Party

truth as seen by Marx,

Lenin and Stalin.

But they wanna... They want to

overthrow all governments.

Even the American government.

By force and violence.

Then we'll overthrow it

by force and violence.

We'll have our way

if it means bloodshed

and terror!

If we have to liquidate

a million milksops like you!

(CROWD DISCUSSES)

NARRATOR:
If woman

was the new enemy,

the informer

was the new hero.

Elia Kazan and Budd Shulberg,

both friendly witnesses,

tried to reverse the dilemma

of Hollywood's leftists.

On the waterfront,

it was easy to keep silent.

It took courage

to name names.

Now listen, you know

who the pistols are.

Are you going to keep still

until they cut you down

one by one?

Are you?

Hey, Dugan, Dugan,

how about you?

One thing you've got

to understand, Father,

on the dock we've always

been "D and D."

"D and D," what's that?

Deaf and dumb.

No matter how much we hate

the torpedoes, we don't rat.

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